I was a humongous Duke Nukem 3D fan, played it religiously. Went to local tournaments, and was ranked #3 at one time on Kali and Ten. So I, even more so than the average person perhaps, was tremendously looking forward for Duke Nukem Forever.

That being said....fuck off already. I'm sick and tired about hearing about Duke Nukem Forever, all the drama over the last 10+ years made almost everybody sick to death of it. Finally when you think it is finally all over, here I check gaming news and see Duke Nukem in the headlines again. For god's sake already, not again.

My favorite part was when a guy I work with, whom for god only knows why bought a lifetime subscription, was throwing a fit a couple weeks later when he found out he had to pay extra just to enter a new mid level zone that was opened up.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt and tried it, and I have to say that creating characters was legitimately very fun. However once you actually start playing the actual game, you'll quickly give up and go back to making a few more characters before quiting.

I played through the first one and did not regret it, but after seeing mediocre reviews and being underwhelmed by the demo, I decided to skip the second.

I was kind of disappointed with the first one in one aspect however, and that was that the demo was so awesome I bought the game...just to find out the demo level was the best part of the game. Was kind of like seeing all the best parts of a movie in the trailer.

No, not yet. Those usually come after all the major publications have had their turn.

My only real gripes so far is that the load times are hefty, and the difficulty scale for the single player campaign is terrible. With the second hardest difficulty the missions are so easy I'm bored, but when I bump it up to the hardest difficulty I find them to be impossible. Then again, the single player campaign might keep me busy for a week, but I might be playing multiplayer for years, so the single player is almost irrelevant in the grand scheme. Otherwise, I haven't put in enough time to give it a full review as of yet, and neither has anybody else that wants to give it an *honest* review.

Anybody who has posted a review so far just wants to be one of the first to do so for reader traffic, they couldn't possibly have played it long enough single player/online to give it an accurate assessment.

Website sucks and has no decent pictures of anything they are selling, which is only a dozen things, most of which is crap. To get the only decent item they have, Frostmourne, you pay $100s more than it should cost and you have to wait for months to receive it.

I bought it and played it for a month until it was time to pay for another month.

Altogether, I thought it was extremely boring. I believe I read through 12 books in the time I played it. Combat consisted of speeding up to the other ship, sailing into a parallel position, matching speed, setting guns to autofire, and then reading ten pages. Rinse, repeat. Hundreds of times.

The PvP was horribly unbalanced, and was only minutely more involved or interesting than the PvE. The large port battles were fun the first two, until I quickly realized they all became nothing but both sides sailing single file with their broadsides pointing towards each other until one side tried to retreat.

Being a pirate was pointless because every merchant you attacked would dump all their cargo the second you engaged them, which certainly wasn't worth the 4 hours you spent camping the port waiting for someone without an escort to come by.

I'd only bother trying it if you were hardcore into excel spreadsheet trading, or for some reason were drawn to the historical period.